~ Tb'e'nfcW tSinilicr of Commerw of BMBjt<sfoo '*-lll be org^nlrod ■w-Hb SOQ

To allow an the teochine ataff attend h' pbyaltal ‘ 'WatltliM at Merchantvlllc, Hoddon townahlp schools closed.for e day. The dri.-e of the falllvlUe Hebrew Aaaodatlon for the relief of the, di»tltnte people of Frahce and .Poland Closed with $2.it2G.6jj contributed. The Fed< nil , lU^ervc Hifird. admitted fwo more !?«•» Jerapy atate backs into Ihe’^edefST lU-M-rve system, the Gllzabethpoi-t Ban&dl. Co. of Ellwibethport. and the, ,&is^. Orange Bank, of hiist Orang^,' . _} L_.‘ ' .That ElltubeUi Schmlttefy tumuy. of West KewrYork, wBo ooraJu&i suicide by jumping from a .ferryboat, bad been married secretly and was forced to take her life by threats from afc' army oftcer who was her discardeo aweetheert has become known. Her mother, who came on from Milwaukee, aaid her daughter became Uie bride of Edmund Moffett, of West New York, October a New Jersey Board of Public Utility Commissioners, baaing Its decision oo the -Parshlc gas case" and recent court decisions granted Public Banrlee Cas Company permission to cliarge f 1.15 for each 1,000 cubic feet Owing to the shortage of soft coal, the Edison cement plant at New Village was dosed. The Bridgeton city , council passed ap. crdlcjume cresting n shade tree commission, the members of the City Park Comtr.Uaion to perform the duties. There are but three other such commissions in South Jersey— Atlantic City, Woodbury and Baddon

Heights.

Paralysis of a nerve caused by a fall from his car, when It bounded orer an. Improperly filled ditch, has caused Herbert A. Wells, head of the Biaisdel! Machine Works of Vtndand, to. loa; practically all the hair from his head and the few remaining have turned white. Treatments are being taken to remove tLe pygsfure on the

berre

, Jigs mall delivery Is finally assured for pitman, according to official notice received by Postmaster Poncoast from the department at Washington^ Postmaster Pancoast said that the service will be started MaYdi l with two 'regular 'earners and a substitute. Strollers report baring found trwiltng arbutus In bod In the South Jersey woodlands. L it Bogata, of Millville, wps ■worn In as clerk of Cumberland county for” a second term, the oath of office being administered by Judge Flthlan. Mr. Hogate was re-elected without Democratic opposition. The flee companies oi Millville, Port Norris and Cedarvlllc. were entertained Bt a luncheon by the Pioneer firemen of Vineland. Among tb? speakers was aenktor-dect Firman M. Beeves, of MUlvlUs .president of the Cumberland County Firemen's Association. The Bridgeton dty council -has ar-.-nnged with the Electric Company of New Jersey for a new lighting system, the arc lamps to be replaced with the modern filament type. The contract, v.-hlch will begin December 15, la for five yean. The high cost oi living assumed another phase at Woodlmry when the' Physicians' Protective Association at a meeting dedded to Increase rates for visit* to ^2. Suit was*brought by Mrs. Anna Vissell of 111 North Sixty-second street, Philadelphia. In the Gloucester county courts to recover $2,000 and n property st Pitman bequeathed to Mrs. Elisabeth Collins of Glassbom. # Cli»r?«s Vlssen, bus! and of the complainant, conducted a barber shop at Pitman for several yean and was a former resident of Camden. WVs the barber died he left the property and the money to the CoUhis woman. The residue of the estate was civet, to the widow. It was sttpasted In the will, after the bequest srp* paid, but It Is claimed there wa*

Twelve negroes are being held by the police following a shooting affray at Trenton, In which William Moore, colored, of Princstou was killed by Policeman Jo!in Green, colored. Green aaya he ordered several negroes who were leaving a social event on North Warren street to light the lamps of their automobile, when Moore became abusive. Green threatened arrest, and Moore, It la alleged, struck Wnv. Hla companions, I* Is charged. Joined the attack oo the policeman, who drew Ms revolver and shot Moore through

■unity gymnr.rlum In th* of ttte Slust St F.. Church. Ity, was formally opened fot

ic with an entertainment Mra, Albert BlieHhorn. thirty years old.** mother ot four email chllIrctj^ dled troqi diphtheria five hours ifterar dbetor had been summone'

her home Ip Kgg Harbor City. ca ordinance tntrodsced In

AndertStln' ol. WeaSh Mi cwsforttbir os. Compa-ad Whh ths II !| ! ^ sf .Tilay Tfiom Wbold Ntvs BSS" Coosifiarsfi Merely ** “*&**■"

will rirrflre additional pay dat

the pew.^ear. Another ordinance w ill

>* ««<se at the next meeting for

Inereqpc in the salary of (he city

clerk.

Commissioner CfimpheU. strtlng mayor of Ocean City, at the weekly meeting oi the beard, took official cognisance of. the anonymous writer who lias been flooding the city with pert card requests to residents to rieui their properties. Mayor Campbell the requests have caused a number of residents to make greet Improvements to their properties, and the writer therefore deserves the thanks of the

City Council the aw**sor

' ' ittfig frot

Grangers of Salem county are aroused over the semiofficial rumor that the Board cf Freeholder* will refuse an appropriation for the continuguce of farm demonstrator InTftaO. W. P. Brodie. the present farm agent, has

ten lie will go to Cleveland. HI* going, It Is said, will be made an cnee by some of the freeholders tc

the office men the ground that

ft Was ‘crested %d a war time emer-

The New Jenny lodge* of Uie Independent Order of Odd Fellows have advanced former Assemblyman George H. Daylmple, of Passaic, the Deputy Grand Master, »o the office of (Band Master, succeeding Harvey H. Hopkins, of Newton, It was announced at the annual convention In Newark. Grand Warden Horton A. Gaskill, of Mays latodlng, becomes Deputy Grand Master, and Cbnrtcs A. Bak^r, oj Newark, advances to his place, Harry g. Pine, of Trenton, wa* t ejected grand secretary, and Joseph 1L Deuoon, of Bordentown, grand treasorttr. An indeterminate term nf Rahway Reformatory wa* given Arthur Rawlings, former Janitor at Hie Y. M. C. at AtlanUc City by Judge Ingersoll on the charge of stealing several hundret^ dollsra firm the members while tlu-y

Rawlings, who Is-'Sf yrmn old, and came from Millville, admitted his guilt. The succeaaful union evon^llstlc campaign. In which scree Vtaclaad churche* are co-v^enitlng, U drawing a close at the First M. E. Chfirch.

Evsngellkt R. B. Goff, Jr„ ' ef Phfla

For a long time

Croevu*. Crassus and^Mtmtc^^M

great wealth. The two ^ |

figures represented riches to GreWWand Rome and the fictitious fiftu-e m the Utter did the Mine for rtnat time*. How rich Croewi* wa« th«« U no way of Judging. The rslue tfifi tteasnre whUh he d It played to S<w*

esunot be estimated. A saying

1—Bread Hue of steel strikers outside their commissary at Tor ng*town, Ohlo. 2—Two thousand Italians boarding the Guiaeppl Verdi at Vew York to sail for Italy, because, as many of them (aid. they had been deprived of their beer and wine. 8—Head of the great wooden statue of Hlndaabcrg which was Used as a means to raise funds during the war, lying In the Tiergaitoo, Barilo.

« what he considered affluence. Hs declared that no one could be coo*" ered rich who could not matotato as army. This, of course, would ha •

treat undertaking even at that though an army then was’ not in — M '

NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EIGHTS

rreaty and Covenant of League Killed for Present by the Action of the Senate.

BOTH SIDES DISOWN BLAME

Ratification With Modified Reaen Gone May Cornet Next gsoelon Efforts to Avert Com Short** Disaster—President Wih son Summons New In- . dust rial Confertnce.

Jacob Ilocsp, eighty years old, pioneer of Millville, died at 111* hone afur a abort nines* He was for more than twmny flve years president of th* Security Building Asaortariua end past prraident of th* Indepondent Order of Odd Fellous Upon ap|>llnitian of U llllam D Voiw bees, who on Ole face of return* wa* fief sated by three votes by John M. WsetM fur the office of aldermnn-at-large to Perth Amboy, an order for a rrcvnia! baa been ullowed In the sopryTjr rtiurt. Yoorheos -.Urge* that to one district 12 vote* for himself were Illegally rejected and that one wa* thrown out In another dlrtrirt und that In some district* Illegal voles were attuned for his opponent. A **ric» of eniertulnmeni* U being flnnned atAVoodetusii for the Isle fall sad winter, the pr**cee<l* to 1m- equally appcrttooMI to the tnernorinl hulloing fund, the po**' 1n»pr«n emrm fund and to th* toml erbool. Tfc* tfsdtvlilc Ameri-sn legion post held a ttiecswaful -movlr'' l-n.-m Arthur Bawling*, of Millville, wlo, «ms a Janitor at the Atlantic tliy Y M. C. A. fbr sovVrtl wcwh*. wa* held ander $700 bfill for the grand Jury hy Magi ■‘'rate Bon the! me r, after h>- bad ptoodi-d »allty to three ci.in-e.- of i*r rsoy. Thnpollc* al*o any that he forgivl the mme of Albert fimlili. un •rnplpysw Of the Atlantic Gtty Ei.-vric Company to s chock for fit! line

delpliia,4n cdnduettog tlic more thau IfXl have profenacd con-

version. ‘ r

Furtnere lad a Mg fight to have a fanu agent to RaKtu county and *m ceeded only under stres. of war condl tlon* and the aid given by the yovonimom In its effort* to increase food production. It has been announced that the federal Id will net txi available next year, and county offldalu, wbo are faring hsavy i-xpcnacs for uew road* and bridge*, have been resting about for oilier item* In the annual budget which can 1m- trimmed. Gloucester P.wt of the American Legion. recently organized, has elected iM-nnnjMfiit officer*: Commander. Hen ry M. Evans: rice rommnmlcr. Jo*er>i McHenry; finance officer. N. A. Crew*: adjutant. Arch If D. firey; historian. Edmund G. Whittington • chaplain. William Springfield. The' onrvllmtul

By EDWARD W. PICKARD. The treaty with Germany, todudlog the covenant ot the League of Nations, Is dead for the present *o far as the United States is concerned. Everyone knows that but opinions as to who killed it differ Irreconcilably. . The lethal dose administered to the pact to the senate was compounded of stubbornness, desire for revenge, pep sonal pride, panisansblp and desire to protect America against the more ->r leas Imaginary plots of foreign notions. WJjo contributed these various dements the reader can tell as well u the writer. The firmness of the president 'and his most ardent supporter* lasted Just a little too long. Otberwlae a compromlgbt have been reached which would have been measurably mtlsfaetory to all except a fee.Irve.-onrilaides —so few that they ^couM have been snowed under, ^ut wbqn Senstor Hitchcock took to *lr._ Wilson Ir, hi* «KJt room the nears that Senator Lodge and Mb follower* had adopted the committee list of reservattonii. the president declared be would plgeoulnle the Uwtly If It were ratified to that shape, anti a*ked the Democratic senator* to vo.e solidly again*! the rnttflcatloo. He pave no hint that he would accept any- compromise, and the ilepuollcans. >. :b the few Detnocrtl* who had stood with them all throagh the fight, thereupon brought the matter to a final vote

at once.

Fa. four and a half hour* there

able chiefly because of the language to which they are coached. Advices from London and Part* toad to the belief that If such objectless were removed th# other great power* would not baaaccept the Amertcan reservations. They an feel that without the Participation of the United State# the League of Nation* would be a phantom thing, and In the wo.d* of General Smuts: “The machinery of the aare civilisation

egnte* to which are not divided up tain groups. He ha* Invited 17 men to be merab.-rs of thU now conference and has asked them to meet to WashIt Eton oo December L The citizen?

falling Into decay, tottering Europe." One Londc com _ ring!islimen with a knowledge of world affairs would apt tv unpie*sed to see the league plan fall, because they do 4 sire an Angto-Franco American allience rather than a league to wl^leh every Httle nation would hare equal powers with the great nations. French officials were disappointed but not surprised by Dm action of the American senate. They are more Intereated Just now to the fate of tto Franco-Ameriain defense pact. It Is taken for granted that *** allied power* will-pot the V«tlfiSnS traaffir into effect not later then December 1. Before this Is done, Cennany must Ugn the protocol to the' trsaty. The German delegates are objecting to the provltJoo requliiiig them to'make reparation for the warships suak In Scapa Flow and want to argue the question.

So far the govemmfBfs legal victory over the striking coal miners **as proved but hollow. The union !<ad«r* sold no court action could compel the men to work, and uo to thsr preezht

roll roll* and parilamentarv maneur- ! the public.

tlon. In some fields some mine* have resumed fipetutlou. but the number Is so small that the situation to growing decidedly desperate. Many trains have been cancelled and Industrie* all over the country are becoming alarmed. When he opened the conference between the operator and the mine union leader* to Washington. Secretory of Labor Wilson told them they mu« get tosethas. Later Fuel Administrator Garfield laid before the scale committee* figures that demon*trated these

two things:

That the fid per cent to create de-ru-nded by the min era U unreasonable and Impossible. '' That the operators have a margin heretofore paid out to ercese profit >aKes upon which to base nn Incrtt of wage* to the miner* without nee Kltotlog a rise to th# price of coal

Secretory WHaon of the labor department : former United States Attorney

United States Attorney-General George W. Wickeraham; former Food Administrator Herbert C Hoover; former Secretory Oscar S. Straus of the com- » department; Henry M. Robin of Panadeaa. OaU Prof. Frank W. Taussig, former chairman of the tariff commission; former Governor Samuel W. McCall of MaasachuAetta; former Governor Martin H. Glytm CfNew York; former Governor Henry Stout of Virginia; Dr. W. O.' Thompson of Ohio Suite university: Richard Hooker of Springfield. Mr**-, George T. Slade of St. Paul; Julius mwald of Chicago; Owen D. Young of New York city; H. J. Water* of Manhattan. Ean.; Stanley King of Boa

In his letter of invitation the president says: “It to not expected that you win deal directly with any condition which crista today, but that you may be fortunate enough to find such ways aa will avoid the repetition of these deplorable condition*."

Thf botohevlkl. while *1111 ertentlbly trying for peace with the Baltic nations and ultimately with the entente, are scoring decided success#* against the Russian armies that oppose them. Kolchak and his Siberian frrees have been driven further east and hare given up Omsk, the seat of their governueot, and several other Important dtlee. The soviet commanders claim tc have captured 28.000 of Kolchak's men at Omsk. General Deo I Vine -also lias given ground before the bolshevik! to southwestern Russia. The campaign of General Todenlteh against Perns grad ha* collapsed and after ret resting to Eethonln he resigned his command In the efiort to avoid Internment of Ms troop* by the Esthonlwi*. Some 20.000 of hi* men. It la reported. Joined the bolshevik army. In Vladivostok there was a two day*' rebellion headed by General Galda. 1 After bloody combat* to the atreeta and suburb* Galda was wounded and cap lured and the revolt wa* quelled.

v KB.

fitate Engineer Ttiompena has Informed Woodbury council Hull the state will take charge of that part of Route No. <1 from the termination of ffouth Broad street to the point recently paved hy the ■tale on Mantua avenue and that repairs will be made at

• Philadelphia and bov t !. ciuthas with the sto •

Pn a charge of operating a motor vehicle without a lleenae, Joseph Gat lagimr, twenty year* old. of Moore* town was fined *25 by Recorder fitarkhonae to Camden. "Popcorn bee*" ere the rage In Glnu certer county. One we* given hy Mia* Olive Berk* of Swedeeboro, and eev oral iwhjool teacher* from oilier part* of the country had sever before seen corn popped. The ha**- bm been eel In Dallarrl Park for Pitman’* mr morinl atone »o In erected to honor of local w ar heroes The Rimer Athletic Aaeoclathm. which baa enrolled more than ftr member*, met for |>erroati.-nt organl ration. This a*«oc1atlon I* barking tits tumemrjit for n town tm-raoriai park and pi*yrroundr. Dr. Blcho"d H. Young, of Newark, corn I ctrd of mini slaughter In rentier tii -i with the death ef Mr*. Tiuumi* II TittwdeU. Of Montrliilr. whirl. .» [ rorred during an opvra'l.u., la granted n tow trial In an optnh-" gi* no by ; th# i«un a* Trentew.

Dr. Garfield thro tMd the confereea that the ccuitry must and should hare coal, and while he uttered no threats. I! was the belief In tfkahlngtor that If an agreement were not reached, the government would resort to extreme meeanre*. What thro* would he can only be conjectured, though It may be It would follow the OHBple of Kansu* and North Dakota, Where Uie Mate ha* taken over the Operation of the mine* hy proclamation of th# governor. Again It can only be gnc*«ed how. In rorb care, laborers WWid l.e obtained. Meanwhile Director General H'nre of the railroad administration t* doing ■verythlog possible to conserve the na■on'* supply of eoal and to dlatributc t equitably. He ha# forbidden any lunereswary nre of fuel hy railroad* and Industrial plant*. Also he has placed a renaorehlp on all new* eon-,-rulne the iv^l (ilusUor- l^caure. h# aid, of falre rumor* that had Iwro Ittributed to official* of tl'.- admlnlMra•lon. Mr. Hlue* la #tt»* inlly endeav.•ring to keep a* much i ruffle and tntustn - moving a* 1* poaall aud la reiring freight truffle to reduc# uune<^ .**B.y mllfcga. Th# aim.moced priority In allowance* atel utir-rie* t*

i«tc Will Iw adoption helnc ...ntlnuad- Bo far three ha* been Ilatrodureil by Ben u-> embargo placed on tee

to the coursa of which Hitchcock vainly tried to get a vote on a mild reservation resolution, but the Republican* were too angry to listen to him. Twice the senate voted os the Lodge resolution of ratification with iruerraHon* and twice It wa* defeated, the find time by 3fl to 5S and the secunt* time by 41 to 51. Between the*# rol calls a vote was lakes on .Underwood' reaolutien for unqualified ratifiratlor Tl.- was heater. 88 to 5S. On tb< ixMlge reenlction 13 Repuhllean* voter* In the negative Imth time*. The*# senator* had declared thenwlve* against the treaty and league unreservedly. The n.lldv rerervatlon Republican* •rould have been captured for a compromlre If Mr. Wilson and Sen*inr Hitchcock had staried on that line er rller. hut as It w a* Del re was able tr hold them to line throughout. While the treaty U eduilttedly dead. It may he brought to life et the legu lar aereion which twgln* M-mday. Dceernber 1. If President WIImjo re sub mlt» It to (he senate and stiows * dl*t^wltlou to aeerpl modincl reservation#. It Ir not unlikely that It will he ratified In •twh a way tl »t th* nther powers wtll a<-qal*ecr Tw alterna-

tive hefor.

of the rewdutl

In Colorado asatftar »"ik« of coal miner* was called oB Friday by the district prcldrot b#CBU»- of allega

D'Anstmrin pullej off snot he- «p#c-t-eular stunt, which may or may not mean anything. Leaving Flume, be proceeded with some . warship* Zara wWe anldst the plaudit* of th# populace he formally added the Dal matlan coast to the Itollar. domain. Rpal*to, he proml-ed. should com# next

The genernl elections In France raaulKd In a great rout of the radical*. They lost many seats In the chamber and Clrmcneeau'a victory wa* *o pronounced that bis elevation to the presidency of France la considered not unlikely.

Real trouble with Mexico loom* result of th* a treat of Consular Agent Jenkins nt Puebla on charge* ermnerted with hla nbduetlna and ransom. Th# government warned Mexico that JrokIns must he released and that any further molestation of him would rlously affect the retattoo* between the United State# and Mexico, for which the government of Mexico wrmld assume sole re*ponalWllty." Th# Muxl ean* accused Jeokln* of eolloaloo w th the t>«ndlf* who kidnaped him.

At the request of the government je Supreme court Is expediting It* he rIng of the ease* for and against ' >r war time prohibition act and the n f..rvenient law. Argument* Iwr* -- Thuredar and the court promised early deelMon. L. thl* rtumecUro wa* officially alated that the pre*ld. n would make no move to rescind fu-

ator Lodge Ja*t N-fure BdVninxnent V/edneMiay night and referred in th<

commitle- on frerifii ivlstinn* with i. ■■■. ——— — —

out debate 'ibla declare* th. *tat fiona that Bot all tb# Btriking miner# war-time prohibition art unlU of war between the United Hiatee and h>>! ben. given reemirtoj. .. ,,! There had been formaUy declared

Germany to he al an etui !t require* who were not taken back. *ald the opthe r»':inirrrore of tlte hotiw but. ac crst»re. were connected wltb the I. cord eg to general prart' -e. m. artlw. vv. W. llondred* of miner- in the New

Hirer field* of West Virginia who had

returned lo wort quit a»-

ibe prwaldmt fullowra.

Hetialor llnrab. one f the Irreronell able*, who want* to k«*p the United Plate* wholly aloof from th. nffalra of the rest of the world predlile ihM the treaty, with the league covenant Inriod ed. and with the Lodge rerervatlon* omiewhat inndtfled, will elltoinlely be railfled. According Mr. llltrhi-nek, many of tb# raswrvBlh'al *r# obJcxtU*

now predicted that the “wet” pert d. If there »« any, will be very •*

Beerctorj of the Treasury Glaat t "

l>ec a n»e entered the *.mntr as ttKeeasor to inord ibe late Senator Martin of Virginia. OOllection ' <11*** accepted the appototnul.t oo tl>e

advice of Preaid cot Wilson. I •aid tal# place «t the head of tbe

Fre*ld«Bt WIIson hs* tnktti tbe aa- j ury would to- filled by John Bkelt n riieof the group reprwm-Ming the puh William*, whoae appointment as « >- Hr to ihe rerent fntll# I" liintrlal cn. ■ I roller rf the rorrrory has oot be|t> frren.> and ha* called anoiher. the dal- j confirmed by tbe senate.

anything like an army of today, was the equipment or surtenanoe neB^

ly aa costly. At Phr.raall. Oeaar bad

22.000 legionaries, L000 rovalry; Pom pey 45.000 leclonsries. 7JW» «valir Also history records that at the ttoa#

of his election to the consulate wltb Pom pey be feasted the Roman pop**- * Use at 10.000 ts'blrt and gave —*■

fnmny corn for three months. The question which came up, ever, wa* In regard to the fita

resource* of Monte Orlato. Nowhere te the novel are figure* glvte from

which a complete answer ean be dB rived. Tbe price* which the count p*M

for hi* possession* and for spectacular effect* are

toned, but not so often that the total-cab be known. However I# very lari rtmpter. Ju« brief* Monte Crlrio dtanppear* to tha Eaat a hint 1* dropped a* to the wealth which Dumas had In mind as originally belonging to the count and what aocbrdingly he believed constituted idmoot fabulous riche* at that time. In almo*: hi* very tort word* In the hot*. Monte Crfrto *ay*: "You do not knew all the Joy which life afford* wtih a great fortune. I pooseos nearly 100.000,000." By tills, of coorvq, he would mean franc* and therefore at th# end of h'» career of reward and veageanrt the count hod $20.000X)00. When Monte Crist; arriveo to Pari* be had hU first Interrittr with the banker. Dangler*. which threw the Utter into tueb eonsternatiob that the count had an unlimited credit. He declare* definitely that he will need for the yea* during which he expect* to remain to France fl.fiOG.000 franc*, perhaps more, though he says that he scarcely

hat he win Tb* toitreri

francs would have be« about 000 so that reOly Monts Crlrio appear* to have been living nearly wllaIn hi* income. There to little or nothing to indicate that he eonridmd ot rather that Duma* considered that hit famous character had in any degree Impaired hit fortune; Therefore, the Inference is that the figure# set by Duma* to bto mind aa the wealth of Monte Crlrio et the beginning cannot v have been very much more comp lively than $20,000,000. That, course, to a goodly fortune erei three day*, but nothing very rem able and certainly not fabulous. Of course, the pure haring newer of mooey wa* considerably greater In DutuaT lifetime und t.U hero might be •apposed to uo much more with hla riches

N*w York** Beginning*. The first rtree: -railway to th# world wa* the New York and Harlem road, built on the Bowery to New York city and opened for travel from Prince street to th* present alto ot Union square. In November. 1832. Twc boreeHrewn vehicles fashioned some-

over th# line Sn tbe day of -oqyrytng aa passenger*

Mayor Wtltot-ffiBv-ne. the city eounetlman and other Invited gueris The affair attracted many *p*rtators and convinced the moat skeptical that th# horse car* were certain to be n great convenience. The road waa extended to Murray Hill to TIBS and

reached the Hartero river

Fare* were, paid In rilver alxpcqn#

y then'll

of ihe •«! Spanish currency t circulates, and on# of the road » original features still In existence to th* old Park avenge tunnel under Murray nnt Hfta* car* were dlacooGnuad is New Toft city on July 2*. 16)7. v-fc*) a few official* of the New York Railway company and tbe public serrice commission boarded an eld car cf the Blecckcr street line, and took turn* to driving the antiquated vehicle on

Us final trip.

Baby “Unalept." Billy wa* left alone with the baby, who waa asleep, while mother went to tbe store. When she returnrd *he found Billy trying to pacify the baby by getting him wary plaything In right aid drumming a tin pan. "What are you doing. Blllyr ah* , cried. "No wonde.- baby I* crying I ^1 Why didn’t you keep still and let Mm atoepT" •Y did,” replied Billy in an injured tone. “But. mother, he unriept the minute you left the houa*.”

tafriy and Banlty. "Anyhow." said the optimist "are »ve mad.- (he Fourth of July safe and

"Yea." replied th* petrimlri, “bat there'are 804 other lay* in the year